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" Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. "

William Hazlitt

May

Made

Fool

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Destruction

Our

" I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. "

" No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. "

" To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. "

" Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. "

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" Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. "

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Friendship

Intimacy

" The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. "

" Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. "

" Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. "

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Stomach

Old

" There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. "

" The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. "

" I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. "

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Talk

Better